On the Politics and Practice of Muslim Fertility: Comparative Evidence from West Africa.
Recent popular works have represented Muslim fertility as dangerously high, both a cause and consequence of religious fundamentalism. This article uses comparative, statistical methods to show that this representation is empirically wrong, at least in West Africa. Although religion strongly inflects...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 12 - 31 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
March 2006
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